larynx
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This mechanism works in a way that is similar to a human whistle, except the airflow that creates the sound becomes turbulent inside the horse's larynx rather than at the lips.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2026
As well as mesothelioma, asbestos can cause other forms of lung cancer, larynx and ovarian cancer.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025
Consultations with doctors eventually brought a brutal diagnosis: spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder in which the muscles in the larynx tighten or lapse into spasms, strangulating speech while making singing a significant challenge.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
It is difficult to reconstruct natural features such as a person's ears, nose or larynx with current plastic surgery techniques, and transplanted tissue is often rejected without immunosuppressants.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024
It was not the man’s brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.
From "1984" by George Orwell
"When we blew helium through the larynges for the first time, the frequency shift was immediately obvious, and we knew we'd solved the mystery," says author William Tecumseh Fitch of the University of Vienna.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2026
To test these theories, scientists studied eight larynges from cats with terminal illnesses that had been humanely euthanized.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2023
Just looking at excised larynges, he says, is “akin to removing the mouthpiece from a wind instrument and analyzing its sounds in isolation.”
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 3, 2023
Mathematical models of other primates’ larynges yielded similar results.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
In severely stenosed tuberculous larynges a tracheotomy should first be done, for though the reaction is slight it might be sufficient to close a narrowed glottis.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
As the study authors explain, baleen whales and their toothed whale cousins could not survive with the larynxes from their land mammal ancestors.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024
After conducting CT scans, the team situated the three larynxes in a laboratory air space and slowly blew air through the system to see if they could mimic a whale’s gigantic lungs.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 21, 2024
As he notes, a cat will usually only purr when it feels safe, comfortable, and content—something that wouldn’t be possible if the felines had uncomfortable probes inserted into their larynxes.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 3, 2023
But it doesn’t seem to lead to anything more than an extra few decibels from their larynxes.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2023
Dr. O'Dwyer, therefore, had a set made, using as models casts taken from a series of various-sized bodies, and furnishing directions to the instrument-maker from careful measurements of adult larynxes.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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